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Alberta’s Highest Court Jams Smith’s Coal Plans (thetyee.ca)
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Premier Danielle Smith’s efforts to revive a contentious open-pit coal mining project owned by the litigious Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart have met a major legal hurdle.

Alberta’s Court of Appeal ruled this week that the Alberta Energy Regulator’s decision to turn a dead mining project — one rejected by regulators and the courts — into an “advanced coal project” is highly questionable and possibly an error in law.

As a consequence Justice Kevin Feth granted the Municipal District of Ranchland permission to appeal AER’s decision to let Northback Holdings apply for several licenses for renewed exploratory drilling on Grassy Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass.

Ranchland is a neighbouring area of wild fescue grasses and cattle ranchers that would be directly damaged by the mine.

A successful appeal would kill those exploratory licenses which are currently set for a public hearing in early 2025.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's all about tribalism. All of it.

All of her politics are about signalling that she's a good member of the tribe, and aligning those tribal boundaries with the interests of her donors. So we get a mix of Great Value Fascism with oil industry pandering as a result.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Crossing the fucking floor is a neon flashing sign she's not a member of the tribe. It's a sign that she'll backstab and sell out at a moments notice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For me it wasn't just that she crossed the floor, but she was the leader of the official opposition that crossed the floor and took 10 MLAs with her, effectively kneecapping the Wildrose Party ... and then had the gall to excuse it away by saying she "was naive and Jim Prentice sold her a bill of goods" (source).

She is as scuzzy at it gets.